"The Third Reich's authorities began planning the liquidation of the Polish "leadership class" even before they began the war. They had prepared proscription lists, with 80,000 Poles targeted for elimination. Among them were political activists, insurgents from Silesia and Greater Poland, activists from social organizations, teachers, Catholic priests and judges. From the beginning of the occupation these plans were implemented in two ways: mass executions and imprisonment in concentration camps. The former were undertaken by the Security Police's Einsatzgruppen, who entered Poland just behind the Wehrmacht. Once in the country, they were joined by Selbschutz, Polish German units under the direction of the SS. In the course of this "political cleansing", the Germans murdered 50,000. Another 20,000 were taken to concentration camps in April and May 1940."
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Janusz Kurtyka, The Destruction of the Polish Elite, foreword
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